Música: Portishead gear up for new album
Portishead are ready to "get together with all [their] bits" and record a new album, Geoff Barrow has revealed, after writing songs throughout this summer. Despite toying with independence since the end of their recording contract, the Bristol band have re-signed with a major label for album number four. There were 11 years separating Portishead's second and third studio albums. But today, Barrow told BBC 6 Music, he is through with faffing about. "I'm writing for Portishead through July and August and I just want to bang on, get another record out," he told Rodrigo Davies. "Hopefully it'll be an awful lot quicker because we're all older and wiser."
The band have already indicated the direction they are heading in, releasing the charity single Chase the Tear in December. "[That's] us [now]," Barrow explained. "We've broken the mould of what people expect from us." The band members have been making fertile use of their down-time. Adrian Utley wrote and performed a film score with Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, Beth Gibbons has "been busy writing", andBarrow's new band BEAK> released an album and played at Glastonbury. Unfortunately, BEAK>'s Glasto gig wasn't a triumph. Scheduled against what was to be England's final World Cup game, the band "ended up playing to about four crazies", Barrow said. "Somebody's got to play to nobody at some point, and that was us."
Barrow also revealed that the band has once again signed with a major label. "It's with people we really trust – the biggest record company in the world," he said. Without him coming right out to say it, it's likely he means Universal Music, the same parent label as for their previous releases. "They've said that we can do what we want," he promised. "We sell enough records to keep them happy." Just so long as their songs keep us sad.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jun/30/portishead-new-album-geoff-barrow
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